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Sky HD TV local problems

Both my Daughter and I have Sky HD TV (installed 01/04/2011) and both in the Tyne Tees Border region. We both have the same problem, we both get local news and adverts from Granada TV (Manchester, Preston and Blackpool). When on HD at a time the national news hands over to the local we change channels to ordinary Sky ITV Channel 103 and get Tyne Tees local news.

We have Virgin HD, a sky box that shows the free channels only as well as freeview on the TV. I am in the Anglia region and to watch the Anglia TV news from ITV I need to go to ch. 870 Virgin as 101 is London. The BBC HD channel on 108 directs you to 101 for local news when this is on. For BBC East I need to switch to the sky box as this is on 101 whereas it is not available at all on Virgin.

Strangely, when I retune the freeview on the TV it shows ITV Tyne Tees and BBC North East during tuning and nothing from the Anglia or London regions!!!!

BBC and ITV only carry one news feed on BBC1 HD and ITV1 HD and if you live in an area not covered then the only option is to switch to 101 or 103. You can with the BBC chose whichever local regional news you want to watch using the channels starting around 970 with a Sky box. With ITV you can select the channel of your choice by using the 'Add Channel' function. I'm sure the same sort of options are available with Freesat as they have identical feeds as used by Sky. The only sure way to watch your local news across the UK is to watch Freeview 101 and 103.

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